Scorecard

AFC
	W	L	T
Bills	8	2	1
Seahawks	7	3	1
Jets	6	5	0
Dolphins	6	5	0
Chiefs	6	5	0
Colts	6	5	0
Patriots	5	6	0
Chargers	5	6	0
Broncos	5	5	1
Browns	5	5	1
Oilers	4	6	1
Raiders	3	7	1
Steelers	3	7	1
Bengals	3	7	1
NFC
	W	L	T
Bucs	7	4	0
Saints	7	4	0
Eagles	7	4	0
Packers	6	5	0
Redskins	6	5	0
Giants	6	5	0
Vikings	6	5	0
Falcons	6	4	1
Bears	5	6	0
Lions	5	6	0
Rams	5	5	1
Cards	4	6	1
Cowboys	3	8	0
49ers	3	7	1

BUM DOPE

One would expect that promoter Don King , whose so-called U.S. Boxing Championships got thrown off ABC last year as the result of a scandal involving rigged rankings and phony fight records, would be more careful with his cards. But that wasn't the case with a preliminary bout on the recent Las Vegas card King promoted featuring his WBC heavyweight champ, Larry Holmes , against Alfredo Evangelista . King 's inattention to detail is opening a whole new can of worms.

The prelim fight, if fight it can be called, was between Scott LeDoux, a possible challenger for Holmes ' WBC title, and an overblown middleweight named James Brown , who was knocked out in two. One trouble is that Brown 's real name is James Brannon, and his record as a fighter by whatever name is dismal. Brown/Brannon's manager, Don White of Spartanburg , S.C. , only makes the matter murkier by saying, "James Brannon four or five years ago was campaigning as a middleweight, then he growed into a heavyweight. James Brown is his ring name, and James Brannon is his real name. When we started over as a heavyweight, we just wiped that slate [ Brown 's and/or Brannon's record] clean. He has never fought under any name except James Brannon. What they put on posters, I don't know."

White claims that Brown/Brannon's record as a middleweight really is of no interest to promoters, but "he probably won about 10 and lost about 10." Brown/Brannon's record as a heavyweight, White claims, is nine wins and two defeats. Whatever the figures, the wins are inflated, according to knowledgeable boxing men. Indeed, a pal of White's reports that before the LeDoux fight, White said about Brown/Brannon, "He's never won a fight, but he almost won one." The pal also says that White remarked he was simply supplying "a body for LeDoux."

There's more. The Brown/Brannon bout is part of a buildup LeDoux is getting. The previous month LeDoux knocked out a stiff named Sylvester Wilder, who was reported to have lost his last 26 straight. Even though the fight, which was held in Winnipeg , lasted only two rounds, the local promoter, Tom (Tex) Burns, had already snuck out the back door in embarrassment. Hal Sigurdson of the Winnipeg Free Press wrote, "Wilder's sole aim was to go into the tank as quickly as possible."

Only two weeks before Winnipeg , LeDoux drew with Bill Sharkey, who isn't highly regarded. Even so, the WBC, in its next rankings, rated LeDoux 10th among world heavyweights, one place ahead of Duane Bobick , a non-King fighter who has beaten LeDoux twice.

The Brown/Brannon bout with LeDoux has also prompted talk in boxing circles about other King-connected heavyweights who are unusually esteemed by the WBC. Jimmy Young is ranked second, even though he hasn't won since September 1977, and has lost twice since then. The mind boggles at where the WBC would rank Young had he won a fight this year.

And then there is Lucien Rodriguez, the heavyweight champion of France , who is ranked seventh by the WBC, even though his main claim to fame is that he was stopped twice by Evangelista . Rodriguez was supposed to be an opponent for Ken Norton on the Holmes-Evangelista card, but ABC looked at his record and vetoed the idea. At the last minute ABC also decided not to tape the LeDoux-Brown fight because the network realized that Brown , who was represented by Don King Productions as having a 9-2 record, was really Brannon and "had no career wins."

STAR PROPERTIES

All that money from Star Wars is helping to burn a hole in the pocket of 20th Century-Fox. Last year Fox bought the Aspen Skiing Corp., and now the film company, which has $136 million in cash on hand, has a "definitive agreement" to acquire the Pebble Beach Corp. for $72 million. Among other holdings Pebble Beach owns two of the three courses used in the Bing Crosby Pro-Am.